Category: Column

Some of us care little about the debate over public bathrooms. We do, however, care about the ongoing destruction of federalism, individual choice and good-faith debate in America. One reliable way to quash dissent and force moral codes on others is to liken a cause to that of the 1960s civil rights fight, because every […]

Socialism is having a moment. I’m not just referring to Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly strong showing in the Democratic primaries. Various polls show that millennials have a more favorable view of socialism than of capitalism. And millennials generally are the only age group that views socialism more favorably than unfavorably. Some conservatives aren’t surprised. Schools have […]

In Nebraska Tuesday night, with only Donald Trump still running for the Republican nomination, 40 percent of Nebraska’s Republican voters voted against him. In the last two weeks, Donald Trump has publicly declared that he does not need the Republican Party to unite behind him to win and that he does not need conservative support. […]

What is the easiest way to kill an industry – any industry? The answer is to inject government into the equation. Government has long been a thorn in the side of American business. And it is also the answer to lessening competition for those crony corporations who, through donations and graft to politicians, are able […]

Isaiah Berlin, one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers, believed that “the central question of politics [is] the question of obedience and coercion.” At its most basic level, the scholar framed the question like this: “Why should I (or anyone) obey anyone else?” That question goes right to the core of discussions about how a […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents The Stephen Coughlin with Stephen Coughlin, the co-founder ofUnconstrainedAnalytics.org and the author of the new book,Catastrophic Failure. He discussed The Deadly Cost of Ignoring Sun Tzu, analyzing the dire consequences of disregarding what a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher counseled us about the Art of War. […]

Support for, or opposition to, mass immigration is apparently a class issue, not an ethnic or racial issue. Elites more often support lenient immigration policies; the general public typically opposes them. At the top of the list are Mexico’s elites. Illegal immigration results in an estimated $25 billion sent back in remittances to Mexico each […]

For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump is no conservative. He is an economic populist. When asked to name the top three functions of government, he said national security, health care and education. Two of the three named “duties” one does not find in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. This puts him […]

Standing on principle, not to mention common sense, is so rare these days that when someone does it they make headlines. That’s because you can quickly be labeled a “bigot” if you oppose a lot of the sludge dumped on us by the secular left, and few can withstand the onslaught. North Carolina’s Republican governor, […]

Let’s call this the most unsurprising headline of the year so far: “Marriage Increases the Odds of Surviving Cancer, Studies Find.” Next thing you know they’ll be discovering that salt makes you thirsty. I’m not actually belittling the science, more the opposite. Even the most cursory glance at social science data accumulated over the past, […]

Of course I had to ask Sen. Bernie Sanders about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account when he came to a San Francisco Chronicle editorial board meeting Tuesday. When Sanders famously offered that he didn’t want to hear about those “damn emails” — the focus of an FBI investigation — during the […]

Some members of Congress want the Department of Justice to know that they are unhappy. The source of their consternation is the correct DOJ’s finding in 2011 that the 1961 federal Wire Act — long believed to prohibit all forms of interstate gambling — is in fact “limited only to sports betting.” To show their […]

Hillary Clinton should be thankful that her career as America’s truth bender began long before social media really got going. When she started dropping those big fat fibs of hers, there was no Facebook or Twitter, no army of Internet trolls to unleash at her enemies, and no emails to be mysteriously lost at the […]

Social media giant Twitter’s got 99 problems, yet the politically correct company is far more worried about the “optics” of cooperating with federal agents trying to stop jihadist plotters online. Hashtag it: #TwistedTwitterPriorities. The company’s stock hit a record low this month. Half of the company’s senior executives abandoned their posts earlier this year. Ad […]

President Obama’s proudest accomplishment is increasing the number of Americans with health insurance. A better idea would be to help people escape government care altogether. As I wrote after my recent surgery, hospital bureaucracy is toxic for patients. Unfortunately, calls for reform usually come from people who want more of the same — more health […]

Most black politicians, ministers, civil rights advocates and professionals support Hillary Clinton’s quest for the presidency. Whoever becomes the next president, whether it’s a Democrat or Republican, will mean little or nothing in terms of solutions to major problems that confront many black people. We’ve already seen that even a black president means little or […]

The new Quinnipiac Poll showing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton essentially tied in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania has sent the chattering class into collective shock. The same Washington insiders who insisted that Trump could never win the nomination may now want to rethink their equally stubborn insistence that he can’t win the election. The polls […]

We all got it wrong. Everybody who wrote Donald Trump off as a political charlatan destined to flame out; everybody who called Trump a clown who would return to his reality show and leave us all alone; everybody who suggested that this circus couldn’t — couldn’t! — continue…we were all wrong. Perhaps we were guilty […]

“Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded,” former Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared 10 months ago. Trump’s candidacy, Perry added, represents “a toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued.” […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents The Daniel Greenfield Moment with Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center who writes the blog The Point atFrontpagemag.com. Daniel discussed Palestine is Colonialism, explaining how the decolonization of  Palestine means the restoration of Israel. Don’t miss it! And make sure to watch […]

It’s a sign that something is amiss when an American presidential candidate ruffles feathers by announcing, as Republican front-runner Donald Trump did recently, that the theme of his administration would be “America First.” “No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first,” Trump said in a speech outlining his foreign policy. […]

On college campuses, it’s evidently a “microaggression” to call yourself an American. It’s becoming increasingly difficult not to offend the poor little snot-nosed whiners who call themselves college students. Almost everything is an affront to their fragile sensibilities. What ever happened to Universities challenging convention and the ability and freedom on campus for free expression? […]

President Obama’s Medicare cuts are killing seniors. His health law changed Medicare, adding bonuses for hospitals that spend the least per senior. The result? Hundreds of hospitals are skimping on care to win bonuses. Seniors at these hospitals aren’t getting the right antibiotic or other treatments they need. They’re dying from pneumonia, heart attacks and […]

Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited — and then disinvited — to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech. Mr. Riley is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and, perhaps most relevantly, author of a […]

Another week has passed and I’m still unenthusiastic about Donald Trump’s presumptive GOP presidential nomination. Instead of allaying our fears, he’s intensifying them — as if on purpose. Throughout the primaries I’ve expressed doubt that Trump is a reliable conservative, and my skepticism has already been vindicated. Yes, I’ve held my nose and supported RINO […]

There are many reasons why Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The four most-often cited reasons are the frustrations of white working-class Americans, a widespread revulsion against political correctness, disenchantment with the Republican establishment, and the unprecedented and unrivaled amount of time the media afforded Trump. They are all valid. But the single […]

On April 19, Target announced that anyone can now use their restrooms or dressing rooms, regardless of gender. With its announcement, Target has made the statement that they are a company run by enlightened progressives who care more about equal rights than you and I. Their statement, so chock-full of feel-good liberal buzzwords, it could […]

Last June, when he said he was running as a Republican for president, billionaire Donald Trump famously called out Mexico for sending “people that have lots of problems” across the border. Quoth the Donald: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Many were offended to hear Trump […]

This new special edition of the Glazov Gang was joined by Nonie Darwish, the author of The Devil We Don’t Know. Nonie discussed Islamic Blasphemy Laws Upheld by U.S. Campuses, sharing how Wingate University tried to silence her when she tried to talk about Jihad and Sharia. Don’t miss it! And make sure to watch […]